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  1. Floppy_D

    Owning a house as a Naval Officer

    No, you plan ahead by wrappin' that rascal before you take her to pound-town.
  2. Floppy_D

    Another nail in the coffin of Old-School Naval Avaition..

    Hell yeah, it is. At least they have their ages on their nametags; it keeps Chris Hansen off my ass.
  3. Floppy_D

    Owning a house as a Naval Officer

    DINK is a state of happiness that lasts until you slap one past the goalie and trade your sports car for an SUV.
  4. Floppy_D

    Owning a house as a Naval Officer

    ^This, and right there with ya.
  5. Floppy_D

    Another nail in the coffin of Old-School Naval Avaition..

    Until I call Tascosa, Amarillo High, Caprock and Palo Duro and tell the chubby chicks you're wearing the new two-piece bacon suit. Where's your god now? :D p.s. I miss Amarillo.
  6. Floppy_D

    Owning a house as a Naval Officer

    Good call, wait it out. Hasty decisions are expensive. :)
  7. Floppy_D

    Swim Qual

    Having read through the CWS-1 and WSQ here the bulk of that sounds similar to stuff you'll do in API, sans the 30 min tread and float. I got put on swim holds for a couple weeks, and they had me do half hour tread/floats to build some aquaconfidence. Two weeks, and I grew gills. If you get...
  8. Floppy_D

    Owning a house as a Naval Officer

    Another thing to consider; when you move out of the area, you'll end up having to rent it out if you can't sell it, which means coping with property managers and hoping for a good tenant. I bought in Norfolk, and am stationed in P-cola. I tried to sell for a few months, and then resorted to...
  9. Floppy_D

    Wow, it's been 20 years!

    I was in 4th grade. I remember my dad being concerned with being drafted (if it started back up,) and what we'd do with the farm. Wow, twenty years. Good story, E2C Mech.
  10. Floppy_D

    Interested in becoming an officer through OCS

    + Rep for making a great first post. I don't understand why some people can't do this. You'll get lots of help here on this forum, so long as you give something to work with. You sound like a motivated feller, so get in that recruiter's hair. Get after it. Don't spin your tires. If...
  11. Floppy_D

    Afraid that my motivational statement is too radical...

    I know I would.
  12. Floppy_D

    STA-21 Questions

    Work on your college GPA, and knock out Calc II and Phys II if you can; particularly if you sucked in high school (like I did.) They'll train you to fly how they see fit, but they want to know that you have the study habits required to make it through training. Invest lots of time in doing the...
  13. Floppy_D

    Deployment video causing heat for Enterprise Skipper

    Better yet, a separate squadron!
  14. Floppy_D

    From the Earth to the Moon

    The Pacific took a different perspective than Band of Brothers, in that it didn't follow the same cast. I think it's representitive of the situation, and really fitting. Sidenote; I really liked Ken Burns' "The War," and did some of the interview/post-production work for the vignettes the film...
  15. Floppy_D

    Deployment video causing heat for Enterprise Skipper

    @jmcquate, +1 for posting a video with Circle Jerks doing the soundtrack.
  16. Floppy_D

    Goosehawk down near TLH

    I think he was being funny.
  17. Floppy_D

    Goosehawk down near TLH

    I'm very thankful to hear that all made it out safe, so far; I hope all involved are back flying soon.
  18. Floppy_D

    Advantages for Enlisted vs officer?

    Off to a great start. If you can't get girls now, it's not going to get any better. A cursory search of the enlisted commissioning threads would have answered this, but what the hell. Don't enlist unless you want to be enlisted. Don't. The opportunities are there to commission; but the...
  19. Floppy_D

    How to get NFO mentor?

    PM'ed.
  20. Floppy_D

    All the gun advice you will ever need is here. Right here.

    That's hilarious. I like thehighroad.org because they don't let those kinda guys stick around for long.
  21. Floppy_D

    Winchester 62

    The rear dovetail sight shouldn't be welded, and will be easy to drift over a smidge. Definitely don't bend it.
  22. Floppy_D

    The basics of API

    You and me both. I nearly drowned as a kid, and was terrified of the water. Four weeks with the fantastic instructors over at the pool, and I grew gills. Those guys know their shit inside and out, and can teach anyone to swim. I thought the helo dunker was a lot of fun: it meant overcoming a...
  23. Floppy_D

    Winchester 62

    If it's a dovetail (as I suspect,) a wooden dowel and a mallet; use gentle raps until you drift it over enough. If it's stubborn you could move up to a brass punch, but don't use anything harder than that or you'll mar the finish. I'd coat the areas where the sight fits into the barrel with...
  24. Floppy_D

    NJP in the past

    Do some searches on the subject, it's been covered before. FWIW, my experience echoes vicariousrider's.
  25. Floppy_D

    DADT repealed

    Right. Be gay, but don't be gay about it. I understand my phraseology is crude, but the real change is that homosexuals have the right to disclose. Good order and discipline presides, and acting out of order in any fashion can/will draw attention upon one's self. As a fan of personal...
  26. Floppy_D

    DADT repealed

    So in essence, "Be gay, just don't be gay about it."
  27. Floppy_D

    DADT repealed

    To what avail? I've been serving with gay servicemembers for over nine years now, it's just now coming to light that they can be open about it. The berthings have always been cramped sausage-fests, and that won't change. PDA still isn't ok, harassment still isn't ok, and the pursuit of good...
  28. Floppy_D

    DADT repealed

    +1 Uncle Fester.
  29. Floppy_D

    DADT repealed

    That explains the cheering I heard when I drove by the AF's 479th hangar earlier. :D
  30. Floppy_D

    Targets

    Bowling pin matches are the reason that lead flatpoint and lead semi-wadcutters are cast. That square nose bites a hell of a lot better than what round noses you likely had to suffer through. :)
  31. Floppy_D

    What's your technique...

    Aerosol Carb Cleaner - airhose - lube. You can use a scraper, but I find that the spray stuff works wonders and quickly, at $1.97 a can.
  32. Floppy_D

    Winchester 62

    Damn... It should be well over 50k by now. The question is... what are you going to do to fix that? Enjoy that rifle. If you're looking for accuracy, Wolf Match Target and Eley Black box work well, as well as Green Tag. For small game, CCI Minimags and Velocitors have always worked well. I...
  33. Floppy_D

    My Latest Purchase (or just pictures of your current guns)

    The standard gripes on the Mosquito are that they aren't built to SIG quality (I think they might be outsourced to GSG, but certainly aren't SIG manufacture) but with CCI Mini-mags, you shouldn't be able to find a difference in reliability. Give it a few hundred rounds, and hit the rails with...
  34. Floppy_D

    Suggestions for Handgun Newbies

    Nice! Now all you need is a throwback 45:
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    Winchester 62

    As an aside, 22 lr isn't jacketed, it's plated. Since the bullet itself is "heeled" to fit it inside a case of the same diameter, the swaging process to fit a lead core inside a cup would be impractical (I'm aware Remington manufactured FMJ bullets for AR7 survival rifles, but you'd be hard...
  36. Floppy_D

    Requesting an award

    What Gatordev said. Back in my early E-days, there were several guys who put in the hours for the award. The command encouraged it, but I don't remember anyone other than Blueshirts getting the award. And good on you for putting in your time, I've worked with H4H quite a bit; they're a good...
  37. Floppy_D

    New Pearl Harbor Photos Found

    They didn't. The ship that the alleged sailor was stationed on wasn't built until after the attack: Snopes Most of those photos have been in the Naval Archives for a while: Naval Archives Nonetheless, good pictures.
  38. Floppy_D

    Ultra Sonic Cleaners

    I played with my dad's ultra-sonic; mostly for gun parts, but I've tried brass in there as well. I couldn't justify getting one for myself. As far as gunparts, I've yet to have a gun so dirty that carb cleaner and a rag wont do the trick. As far as brass, I really haven't found anything that...
  39. Floppy_D

    Questions about NSI

    No, I meant coming back to the barracks and not reading the numbers on the door that you thought belonged to you, getting undressed and crawling into bed.
  40. Floppy_D

    Questions about NSI

    I managed time to lift every day. We were, unless it was past "bedtime" or whenever liberty expires. Pretty much after dinner you're on your own. I'm pretty sure, yeah. I mean hell, we had a coffee mess in our room. There are a few "open locker" inspections, but you know about them ahead...
  41. Floppy_D

    M1 vs .223 For Christmas

    I'm actually faxing off an M1 order here in a couple days. I picked up a very nice M1 Carbine right before the bubble popped, and I don't want to miss out on a Garand. Go with the M1.
  42. Floppy_D

    too little to fly?

    No; but if memory serves, she flew IFS sitting on a stack of pillows she nabbed off the couch in the lounge. :D
  43. Floppy_D

    too little to fly?

    @wannaflywindy: There was a girl here at Sherman Field who was short enough that she (whilst strapped in) couldn't reach the T-6 canopy to pull it shut... the instructors concurred that it didn't matter, since she made anthro to fly. Keep keepin' on, and good luck.
  44. Floppy_D

    IFS Gouge

    To be fair, there is attrition in IFS. Some folks don't like flying once they get a shot at it; I saw multiple people DOR in IFS. Given the cost to send a person to IFS versus the cost to get them ready to solo in primary... there's probably a positive return. Who knows; it seems hokie, but I...
  45. Floppy_D

    slightly long but worth reading....

    Click >here<, there's more than listed above. Free 6" subway, TGIF, Chili's, Hooters, etc.
  46. Floppy_D

    NSI Graduation Ceremony

    wlawr005 speaks truth. Spare the spectators for the commissioning.
  47. Floppy_D

    NOV 10 ... oh, yeah -- Marines, too ...

    Perhaps a fan of Labradors, too? Here's a simple ID guide fo the 4 types of Labrador: I know this is GA, but A4s mentioned dogs first. :D
  48. Floppy_D

    An age old question

    Yeah, he's not kidding. But it seemed to work out pretty well; because with a near-even split of MIDN and OCs, the treatment was equal. If there was just a couple of OCs, I could see where lines might get drawn. The only splits in training was between lower/upperclassman. @the OP, chewing...
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